Arvind Sethi
Mr. Sethi is the Managing Partner of CAP-M Consulting, a firm specializing in executive development, training and financial consulting in the capital markets. Prior to that Mr. Sethi was the Managing Director and Head of the Global Markets Group of Bank of America in India. Earlier he was the Head of Treasury at ANZ Grindlays Bank and Treasurer of HSBC Bank.
Apart from managing some successful treasury operations he was the founding member and Chairman of FIMMDA. He was also on the Reserve Bank of India’s Technical Advisory Committee on the Government Securities Market and the Technical Advisory Committee on the Foreign Exchange Market. Mr. Sethi did his schooling from Stowe School, U.K. He completed his BA/MA Honours in PPE-Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University (Keble College) in 1979.
Chuck Olson
Mr. Olson has, for twenty years, pioneered innovative use of technology in education. Currently he is Director at Virtual High School and Partner at LTGO. In the past he founded and sold Quickdot Corporation. He also worked as CEO Learning Technology Group at Simon and Schuster, as CEO Learningways division at Davidson & Associates and as Director at Lotus Development Corporation.
Mr. Olson's keen product vision has been instrumental in the development of numerous educational software products, including MathProcessor and Science DiscoveryWorks for Simon & Schuster, GeoBlaster for Davidson & Associates and Bank Street Writer for Broderbund and Scholastic. He was instrumental in the development of Prentice Hall's ground breaking Interactive Math series.
Gautam Kiyawat
Mr. Kiyawat is Senior Vice President at STAR, responsible for the network's distribution/ marketing in South East Asia covering markets like Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Prior to Star, Mr. Kiyawat was with Philips Consumer Electronics where he was Regional Marketing and Business Director for Asia Pacific. Earlier he was with Procter & Gamble Asia, where he had regional and India-based roles.
Mr. Kiyawat is an MBA from IIM Bangalore.
Jim Nye
Mr. Nye has been leading companies in the field of educational publishing and companies using technology in education for the last 35 years. He is currently the Senior Partner with New Publishing Solutions. Prior to that, he was the CEO of Carnegie Learning, CEO of Explore Learning, Vice President of Ingram Digital Group.
Before that he has held various positions with leaders in the education industry including Harcourt College Publishers, John Wiley and Sons, CBS College Publishing, and ITT Publishing.
Joydeep Sengupta
Mr. Sengupta is Managing Director, Global Markets Group, Bank of America India. He heads the Global Markets Foreign Exchange and Interest Rates Derivatives business for Bank of America in India. Mr. Sengupta started his career with Bank of America in foreign exchange and derivatives trading and then moved to sales and marketing. Mr. Sengupta was part of the Working Group on Introduction of Credit Derivatives in India, constituted by Reserve Bank of India.
Joydeep is an alumnus of IIM, Ahmedabad. Prior to that he has completed his Chartered Accountancy (Articled at Price Waterhouse), Cost Accountancy and Commerce Graduation from Kolkata University.
Radha Dhir
Ms. Dhir is working as Managing Director, Global Markets, Deutsche Bank India. Ms. Dhir is responsible for Foreign Exchange and Interest Rates Derivative Sales for Deutsche Bank in India.
Ms. Dhir is one of the very few women MDs in Investment Banking in Asia and the first in Deutsche Bank, India.
Ms. Dhir is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore.
Saumil Majmudar
Mr. Majmudar did his engineering from IIT Bombay and MBA from IIM Bangalore. Mr. Majmudar is a serial entrepreneur. After working for with Wipro for a few years, the entrepreneurial bug bit him and he founded Learn@Home which evolved into Qsupport - a remote tech support business based out of Bangalore. He exited Qsupport and then worked with FutureSoft in San Jose for some time.
Soon he was back into the entrepreneurial game and founded SportzVillage - a high value business that capitalises on the emerging sports, health & fitness related market in India. SportzVillage services span mobile sports technology, sports events, sports marketing, sports tourism and now sports infrastructure.
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